Word: henchmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...harsh and repressive regimes of successive members of the Somoza family. For three decades, that opposition was led by Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, brilliant and unflinching editor of the Managua daily La Prensa. On Jan. 10, 1978, Chamorro, 53, was gunned down on his way to the office by Sonioza henchmen. The apparent motive: retaliation for a La Prensa disclosure that a blood bank owned in part by Somoza was selling much needed blood abroad at a profit...
...Democrats would do better to unleash all their venom on Reagan's henchmen, many of whom are grossly unqualified and do not share the President's vencer of personal unassailability. James G. Watt is the leading example: Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and Margaret Heckler are others And it's about time someone went to town on National Security Advisor William Clark, a foreign affairs novice who, according to Newsweek, "is commonly judged a 'disaster...
...Victor/Victoria, in which Blake Edwards momentarily lost his customary sharpness and floundered around in a bland, sentimental limbo. Likewise, My Favorite Year contains too many lovable characters, too many cute situations, and in the end it becomes oppressively fluffy. Even the movie's villains corrupt teamster boss and his henchmen turns out as threatening as cigar-chomping teddy bears in pinstripes...
...only problem with Diva is that at times Beineix's knack for adding bizarreness to things like car chases and gangsters verges on the farcical. The Caribbean Connection's two henchmen are truly terrifying, especially the sinister aviator-man only says sentences beginning with "I don't like...." Yet their predilection for popping up in unlikely places becomes unbelievable the fourth or fifth time around. Likewise, Hawkins' ready acceptance of Jules as companion and confidant seems incredible, considering her "I vant to be alone" aura...
...letter he sent to Reagan on the day before the Beirut invasion. After thanking the President for sending him greetings on his 69th birthday, Begin said, "I feel as a Prime Minister empowered to instruct a valiant army facing 'Berlin' where, amongst innocent civilians, Hitler and his henchmen hide in a bunker deep beneath the surface...